Two-year-old Arifa was taken to West Bengal's Koochbibar district from a village near the Fulbari border in Kurigram district on August 31.

According to press reports, a magistrate's court in Dinhata sub-division of Koochbihar on Friday said the return of the child would require a no-objection certificate from the state government.

Arifa was taken to the court from her makeshift shelter at a nursing home in Kolkata.

An official of the Bangladesh deputy high commission in Kolkata was present at the court that asked the local police to keep Arifa in their custody under the supervision of a nurse instead of sending her back to Kolkata until the next hearing of the case on Tuesday.

Officials said the baby was likely to be returned to her parents through Indian Border Security Force (BSF).

Arifa, daughter of Ayub Ali and Amena Begum of border village Naodanga under Fulbari upazila in Kurigram, was abducted by alleged Indian smuggler Chhoto Babu of Koochbihar.

The BSF and Koochbihar police rescued her on a request from the Bangladesh Rifles and arrested her suspected abductor. But cross-border legal complications delayed her return.